I think they had too much stuff going on in the last season. It should have been eight seasons with the same basic plot. They didn’t have the space they needed to give the audience room to breath. Of course, I also want a season with Kira as a Star Fleet captain.

Given the constraints they had, though, I’m not unhappy with the result. On the whole. There’s still that ONE part I’m irritated by.

(Caveat: While DS9 is my favorite Star Trek series, I’ve seen the last season fewer times than any Trek except Into Cummerbund and TAS.)

Having just rewatched both, I can say confidently: TNG rules and DS9 sucks! And not just because of the awesome TNG blu-ray remasters, altought DS9 now looks like shit in comparison. TNG is also also a far better SciFi series. Enjoy your endless Bajoran hokum and PG-13 genocide descriptions!

DS9 is the series that introduced a holographic lounge singer as a regular character and had that episode with the runabout that goes through a shrinking process. But then, that’s still a step up from Voyager’s hyperevolved lizards (an expression that could apply to two episodes, come to think of it) and quaint Irish village.

Mr. Siddig went on the record saying that he not at all pleased at the changes to the character.

I can see why. A good writing team plans character arcs long in advance and lets the actors in on their character’s motivations and backstory as early as possible. That’s why Alan Rickman was one of the only people apart from J.K. Rowling to get the real scoop on Severus Snape years before the later Harry Potter books were published. When you rewatch Snape’s earlier scenes with that knowledge in mind his actions make more sense, not less.

It seems to be irretrievably stuck at page 6, hence “slightly munged”. Or am I missing something…?

[quote=“Mindysan33, post:18, topic:84933”]TNG also had a quaint Irish village episode, did they not? They were colonists who the Enterprise had to move… pretty much walking Irish Peasantry stereotypes, as I remember.[/quote]Well, yes, but they were just stuck in a cargo bay, and were pretty much only there for half an episode. Voyager dwelled upon it for a little longer than necessary.